Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews (Paperback)

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Exactly what the title suggests and more: the why, the who, the how, and the how to talk about. Adams is a simple, concise writer. He writes for professionals, hobbyists, and sundry alike. This collection was a real pleasure.

— Sarah G.

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A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Eug ne Atget. The book closes with two essays on "working conditions" in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, and the essay "Two Landscapes." Adams writes: At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.
Product Details
ISBN: 9780893816032
ISBN-10: 0893816035
Publisher: Aperture
Publication Date: June 15th, 2005
Pages: 189
Language: English